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...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her first Hollywood film, serves up Tennessee Williams' comitragedy as a wonderful pizza-pie farce-and the spectator gets it smack in the eye (TIME...
Another Slice of Pizza. In Hoboken, in a coldwater flat ("one can to four families"). Frank was born on Dec. 12, 1915. He weighed 13½ lbs. at birth, and in the delivery his head was badly ripped by the forceps, and one of his ear lobes was torn away; he carries the scars to this day. The doctor laid the unbreathing baby on the bed. thinking him stillborn, and turned to save the mother. Frank survived because his grandmother snatched him up and put him under the cold-water faucet...
Frankie's father, Martin Sinatra, was a run-of-the-gym boxer who fought under the name of "Marty O'Brien," a quiet little man who could stand up to a beer and mind his own business. Frankie's mother, "Dolly" Sinatra, was another slice of pizza altogether. That sturdy little woman could stand up to anything, come Hague or firewater, and minded everybody else's business along with plenty of her own. Dolly, who says she started out as a practical nurse, was soon helping Marty run a little barroom at the corner of Jefferson...
...hall. "I wish I could have seen more of the boys," she purred. Returning to Japan, she was briefly bussed by her groom, ex-New York Yankee Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, who somewhat obliquely announced to her: "I've found a place in Osaka that has a very good pizza...
...looked like a shoo-in winner. Herter, the slender aristocrat, was his exact antithesis. As a friend put it bluntly, "Chris never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street." But in his campaign, Herter combined polite persuasion (best effort: small pizza parties arranged by friends) with a slam-bang attack on Dever's record ("Dever . . . has become the tool of the contractors who are doing the same jobs over and over again at your expense"). Herter won by a hairline 14,440 votes. In his short six months as governor...